Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music in the air ... there's music in the hills ... there's music by the river ... there's music in the air-conditioned library. As a matter of fact, the interested Summer School student, whether his preference lies with J.S. Bach, with D. Brubeck, or simly with moonlight and grass, can hardly fail to find the musical interludes he is looking for during the months ahead...
...like tunny, but is better and keeps well. The Indians often kill manatees as they pasture along the river banks, and when small they may be taken in nets." The chief drawback encountered in Gómara's all-purpose animal is that it apparently pastured on real grass rather than algae and perhaps, after the novelty wore off, it didn't taste so good either; but "sea pig"? No thanks...
What were the two intertwined figures doing on the park grass in the heart of Amsterdam? Burgomaster Arnold D'Ailly bustled up for a close look last week, and turned a fiery red. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz had called his big, blocky, semi-abstract bronze The Couple, and it was all too clearly a labor of love. The burgomaster ordered the sculpture removed that very night to the museum cellar from which it was borrowed...
...troops at Fort Burnside make the familiar old G.I. sounds : "You men can make it easy on yourselves or hard on yourselves, and I don't particularly care which, because I can play it both ways ... if you screw up around here, your behinds will be grass and I will be the lawnmower...
...training cycle's end, Andy marries Susan and gets picked as a cadreman to train incoming recruits. "I'm a hard man but a fair one," he tells them. "If you screw it up, your behinds are grass, and Sergeant Sheaffer is the lawnmower...